Easter Week

The next morning, as is usually the case, was spent dealing with working on responses to all the suggestions and making copious to-do lists, which I have continued to plough through for the rest of the week. Both Wednesday and today were designated as “Baking” days and I am happy to report that the Retreat Week Baking is almost completed with just a batch of biscotti still to make. Since tomorrow evening is Crossroads and our Board Meeting will be happening in the afternoon the plan is to make a triple batch of biscotti although it is doubtful that will be enough for the Retreat crowd too!! On Thursday and Friday I squeezed in various Office bits and pieces in readiness for the Board meeting and continued to try and sort out both the empty slots in our schedule and ways by which we can  recruit many more Team Members and Leaders. Sometimes it can get super discouraging now and over the next couple of months but Thursday I received a second response to the bunch of emails I had recently sent to England and it was the sort of lovely piece of communication that jolts me into remembering why I choose to dedicate myself to this work and am so passionate about Day Camps. The message lifted my spirits and truly blessed my day. I’m not going to divulge too much about it because my plan is to approach the writer and ask if I could use his email as the basis of a Wednesday Words post but essentially the message I had sent was to a long ago Team Member. I had doubted he would remember me or much about his experience in Canada and thus his response blew me away as he spoke about the impact Day Camp Team had (and still has) on the person he is today. Yes, those sorts of things make the stress and worry and struggles all TOTALLY worthwhile!!!    With rain nearly every day this week there has been little opportunity for garden work apart from some basic sweeping and picking up debris but indoors I undertook the fairly big task of painting the basement floor. It has turned out super nicely but of course I now feel I also need to paint the floor of the furnace room and the small storage area adjoining it! Thus spring-cleaning continues both indoors and out.